A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 eBook

Soon after the retreat of Solyman Pacha from Diu in
November 1538, but in the beginning of the subsequent
year 1539, when the new viceroy Don Garcia de Noronha
had returned from his tardy expedition to relieve Diu,
Don Gonzalo Vaz Confino[260] came with five
small vessels from Onore, where he had been
sent by the former governor Nuno de Cuna on the following
occasion. One of the gallies belonging to the
fleet of Solyman Pacha had been forced into the port
of Onore[261], and it was thought the queen of that
province, then a widow, had violated the treaty subsisting
between her government and the Portuguese, by giving
protection to that vessel. Gonzalo Vaz called
her to account on this subject, when she declared
that the vessel was there against her will, as she
was not in condition to prevent it, but would be glad
that it were taken by the Portuguese. Gonzalo
Vaz accordingly made the attempt, but was repulsed
after a sharp engagement, in which he lost fifteen
of his men, and among these his own son Diego Vaz.
Gonzalo suspected the queen of having secretly assisted
the enemy, and refused some refreshments she had sent
for the wounded men, returning a rash and resentful
answer mingled with threats. The queen cleared
herself of the imputation, and again offered a treaty
of peace with the Portuguese, which was concluded,
and some Portuguese were left by Gonzalo at Onore,
to observe what conduct was pursued by the queen for
expelling the Turks.

[Footnote 259: This section is added from the
Portuguese Asia of De Faria, II. s. et seq. to connect
the history of events.—­E.]

[Footnote 260: The name of this commander is
probably erroneous in the text, from an error of the
press, and ought to have been Coutinho.—­E.]

[Footnote 261: Probably the galley already mentioned
in the Venetian Journal, as having separated from
the Turkish fleet on the voyage to Diu, and for which
the pilot was executed by command of Solyman.—­E.]

Before leaving Diu, and having repaired the fortifications
of the castle, the command of which was given to Diego
Lopez de Sousa, pursuant to a commission from the
king of Portugal, a treaty of pacification with the
king of Guzerat was set on foot and concluded, very
little to the advantage of the Portuguese, owing as
was generally believed to the covetousness of Noronha.

The late success of the Portuguese terrified all the
princes of India who had been their enemies.
Nizam-al-Mulk and Adel Khan sent ambassadors to the
viceroy to renew the former treaties of peace; and
the zamorin, to obtain the more favourable reception
from the viceroy, employed the mediation of Emanuel
de Brito, commandant of the fort at Chale.
Brito accordingly promised his interest, and the zamorin
sent Cutiale as his ambassador to Goa accompanied
by a splendid retinue, where he was received by the
viceroy with much courtesy and great pomp. Had
not the viceroy fallen sick, he intended to have gone